title: Excuses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper aims to examine the nature of excuses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The making of excuses is sometimes roundly condemned. However, an excuse is a reason offered in application for exemption from a task or for blameless status when an action has been taken (or not taken). Acceptance (or otherwise) depends on an assessment by society of the facts and a decision (by society) as to whether a sufficient quantity of energy has been exerted by the applicant. Psychoanalysis, meditation and the ageing process may assist the individual by reducing the number of excuses submitted, and increasing the rate of excuse acceptance (by society).
authors.affiliation: University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia. s.pridmore@utas.edu.au
authors.forename: Saxby
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pridmore
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007600:Judgment; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D012941:Social Responsibility